Essence help?

[dusty1197]

--- In minutus@yahoogroups.com, "Rochelle Marsden"
wrote:
He was a pathetic little man if that helps.

*** Lyc? Puls?

Toni

[andyh]

Rochelle Marsden wrote:
((( (unsorted search result)
Pathetic: adam.222, agath-a., aids, ant-t., apisin., 2bar-m.209, bell.11, bor., brucel.241, buth-aust.119, butho-t., cann-i.36, canth.108, choc., cic., cimic., cocc., crot-h., falco-p., haliae-lc.222, 2kreos.58, lach., 3Lyss.8, nat-m., nuph.231, ol-suc.194, onos., 2ph-ac.26, sep.187, spect., stram.36, vario.156, verat.219, zinc.
GENERALITIES; BONES, complaints of; general; brittle (22) : asaf., bani-c., bar-c., bufo, calc., calc-f., calc-p., carc., cor-r., cupr., fl-ac., lac-ac., lyc., merc., par., ph-ac., pip-n., ruta, Sil., sulph., symph., thuj.
GENERALITIES; BONES, complaints of; general; crumbling of (29) : ars., asaf., aur., bell., calc., calc-p., con., dulc., ferr., guai., hep., kali-c., lach., lyc., merc., mez., nit-ac., petr., ph-ac., phos., puls., rhod., rhus-t., ruta, sabin., sep., sil., staph., sulph.
GENERALITIES; BONES, complaints of; general; porous (1) : phos.
GENERALITIES; BONES, complaints of; general; syphilitic (28) : arg., ars., asaf., aur., bell., bry., calc-f., carb-v., con., fl-ac., hep., kali-bi., kali-i., lach., lyc., merc., mez., nit-ac., ph-ac., phos., phyt., rhus-t., sars., sil., staph., still., sulph., thuj.
GENERALITIES; BONES, complaints of; general; bare, become (28) : ang., arn., ars., asaf., aur., both-l., calc., chin., con., hep., iod., lach., lyc., merc., mez., nit-ac., petr., ph-ac., phos., puls., rhus-t., Ruta, sabin., sep., sil., staph., sulph., symph.
GENERALITIES; SOFTENING; bones (52) : allox., am-c., arg., Asaf., aur., bac., bell., cadm., Calc., calc-f., calc-i., calc-p., chlorpr., cic., con., cortico., cortiso., dys-co., ferr., ferr-i., ferr-m., ferr-p., guai., hecla., hep., iod., ip., kali-i., lac-c., lyc., Merc., merc-c., mez., nit-ac., nux-m., ol-j., parathyr., petr., ph-ac., phos., plb., psor., puls., rhod., ruta, sep., Sil., staph., sulph., syph., ther., thuj.

Cross with

MIND; CONFIDENCE; want of self (120) : adam., agki-p., agn., alum., am-br., am-c., am-m., Ambr., aml-n., Anac., anan., ang., anh., aq-mar., arb-m., arg-n., arist-cl., ars., aur., aur-i., aur-s., bamb-a., bar-acet., bar-c., bar-s., bell., bry., buth-aust., calc., calc-sil., cand-a., canth., carb-an., carb-v., carc., caust., cham., chin., chlor., choc., cob., cocc., conv., corv-c., dros., dys-co., falco-p., foll., gall-ac., gels., germ., graph., haliae-lc., hura, hydrog., hyos., ign., iod., kali-c., kali-n., kali-s., kali-sil., kola., lac-c., lac-del., lac-eq., lac-h., lach., lap-c-b., lap-gr-m., lyc., manc., med., merc., mosch., mur-ac., musa, naja, nat-c., nat-m., nat-s., nat-sil., nit-ac., nitro-o., nux-v., olnd., op., ozone, pall., petr., ph-ac., phos., pic-ac., plb., prot., pseuts-m., puls.,
ran-b., rhod., rhus-t., ruta, sac-alb., sant., Sil., spong., staph., stram., sul-ac., sul-i., sulph., sumb., syph., tab., tax-br., thea., ther., verat., verb., viol-t., zinc.

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just for grins, if one then crosses, pathetic:

Pathetic: adam.222, agath-a., aids, ant-t., apisin., 2bar-m.209, bell.11, bor., brucel.241, buth-aust.119, butho-t., cann-i.36, canth.108, choc., cic., cimic., cocc., crot-h., falco-p., haliae-lc.222, 2kreos.58, lach., 3Lyss.8, nat-m., nuph.231, ol-suc.194, onos., 2ph-ac.26, sep.187, spect., stram.36, taosc., vario.156, verat.219, zinc.

and
MIND; TALK, talking, talks; general; himself, to (37) : aeth., ant-t., apis, aur., bell., calc., chlol., crot-h., haliae-lc., hydrog., hyos., ign., kali-bi., kali-cy., lach., m-arct., m-p-a., mag-c., mag-p., merc., mosch., mur-ac., nux-m., nux-v., oena., op., ph-ac., plb., pyrog., ran-b., rhus-t., staph., stram., sul-ac., tab., tarax., vip.
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Elimination: bell., lach., ph-ac.

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Tendon ruptures--is Ruta an idea in the case---or is Calc-p (chronic of ruta).

Merc--low confidence and loathing of self.

Aids nosode-- tendency to not be able to take responsibility for anything

Ph-ac--grief from mother death qualify as trigger... any phos ac keynotes..is he indifferent

Anac--syphilitic rx (osteoporosis) and is a TENDON rx and NOT GOOD ENOUGH

ANAC--Gunavante:
Keywords: Discontented, coward, with two wills, who becomes suspicious, abusive, cruel, and inhuman even to relatives.
I. Synopsis (Identifying Features):
1. Sudden loss of memory. Suddenly forgets names, etc., in students before examinations (hence anticipatory fear of examination); in old age. Brain fag.
2. Want of moral sentiment - characterised by cruelty, malice, hatred. Unsympathetic; unfeeling, hard hearted. Want of moral feeling.
3. Anger from contradiction; violent anger.
4. Discontented; dissatisfied; want of self - confidence.
5. Delusions, fixed ideas - of being double, as if he has two wills each bidding him to do what the other forbids.
6. Delusion that he was pursued by enemies.
7. Irresistible desire to curse and swear; abuse.
8. Symptoms relieved entirely when eating (Psor.). Headache; dyspepsia (all - gone sensation in stomach).
9. Manners awkward - laughs at serious matters and is serious over laughable things (Bar. c).
10. Great desire for stool, but with the effort the desire passes away without evacuation. Rectum seems powerless with the sensation as if plugged up.
VIII. Peculiar, Uncommon, Grand characteristics:
1. Mind - Clairaudient, hears voices far away, or of the dead.
2. Mind - Sensation as of a hoop or band around a part, or as of a dull, blunt instrument, or a plug in inner parts.
3. Genitalia Male - Flow of prostatic fluid while at stool; semen passes after a hard stool.
4. Cough - Abdomen feels as if it would burst when coughing.
5. Cough - Dull pressure as from a plug in right side of chest.
6. Heart - Two quickly succeeding stitches pierce through and through the heart at night.
7. Sleep - Spells of sleeplessness last for several nights.
8. Skin - Warts on palms of hands (Nat - m).
10. General - Any part which he leaves unmoved, immediately goes to sleep.
11. General - Symptoms are prone to go from right to left (Lyc.)
12. General - Weakness of all senses - vision weak, indistinct. Objects appear far off. Hearing: hard of hearing. Taste - lost.
13. Rectum - Bowels inactive. Rectum powerless, as if plugged up.
14. Nose - Smell: Sense of smell perverted, esp. in the aged.
15. Dreams - Anxious; of business; dead bodies; fire; disease; difficulties.

[Shannon Nelson]

Hi Rochelle,

I don't know if this is relevant, but I found the rubric
MIND; FEAR; general; observed, of her condition being (11) : aq-mar., atro.,
bamb-a., bar-s., Calc., chel., choc., falco-p., germ., lap-c-b., lap-mar-c.

Had wondered whether bar-c would be there; it's not, but I see bar-s. Just
FWIW!
Best,
Shannon
on 1/25/05 7:27 PM, Rochelle Marsden at rochelle@ntlworld.com wrote:

[J Lucas]

I have to say I don¹t quite understand how someone can be pathetic but also
be moving towards destructive torment ­ you would have to be clearer on
this.

I gave Aurum as an example of the destructive torment ­ a syphilitic and
mercurial state.

This is the problem with essence prescribing if you get stuck on just one
idea about a remedy without re-reading the materia medica. Aurum isn¹t JUST
about success versus failure. It all depends at what point the individual
joins the paradigm.

Where does the case begin? With the broken back? He feels small. Perhaps he
is on the Baryta / Lycopodium trail. How long has he been talking to
himself?

Why do you want to take this case from an essence point of view ­ already
there are so many remedies that could apply.

And to add to that choice ­ if this case is all about performance and
achievement (or lack of it) coupled with a fear of going high and feels
small (interesting core delusion?), what about Coca?

Unless you want to give the whole case we are all just guessing.

Joy

http://www.homeopathicmateriamedica.com
on 26/1/05 1:27 am, Rochelle Marsden at rochelle@ntlworld.com wrote:
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[Rochelle Marsden]

I wasn't really intending to give the whole case . It was just that he kept saying the same thing over and over again so I thought I would see what the group thought. What struck a bell with me more than anything was Baryta Carb. However I have a lot more work to do on the case with the help and ideas I have received from the group and thanks to anyone I have forgotten to mention personally including Jean.

[dusty1197]

Joy wrote:

just one
isn¹t JUST
individual

*** Joy, this is a bit of a delayed reaction, but would you mind
expounding on your above thought a little more, particularly the
statement: "It all depends at what point the individual
joins the paradigm."

All remedies contain various presentations and different degrees of
health along a continuum, which always gives me to imagine a linear
progression, but your statement brought to mind a circular one
where, depending upon at what point a case enters its flow, it will
include or exclude blocks of a remedy's pathogenesis as it arcs
around the circle from its point of entrance. This, then, involves
recognizing not only where a case is, but where it is headed. Could
you offer more insight?

Does this relate to Herscu's method, involving cycles? I'm not as
familiar with this method as I would like to be and would enjoy
hearing more about it if, in fact, it is relevant to your original
post.

Toni

[J Lucas]

I have to say that I am not that familiar with Herscu¹s methods either. But
how many methods are there, one for every homeopath in the world? I prefer
the way Julian said it in another post regarding Boenninghausen - find the
symptoms, give the remedy. THAT is what homeopathy is about.

We have to find our own way of doing this and creating methods can subtract
from the simplicity of realising what rx is the simillimum.

This pertains as much as anything to the need of understanding the remedies
and we know that an individual is unlikely to represent the whole sx picture
of any given rx (our job would be much easier if that were so).

But in chronic disease we also know that an individual can and will
tolerate, suppress, pass through, succumb and then partially recover from
their diseased state as it tries to take a hold. The vital force will be
visualising sx right from the start but each individual has a great deal of
machinery to avert the full take over of disease. Chronic disease wouldn¹t
be chronic disease without this. But each individual, depending on their
susceptibility, will succumb at some point of the disease paradigm, where
they can no longer tolerate their diseased state. They might already have
been through the allopathic route and perhaps many other healing processes
but when they choose to come to homeopathy then I think this is a vital
moment of knowing and understanding the client and their diseased state and
thus the remedy required.

Again, depending on an individual¹s general energy or lack of it, and
susceptibility, they might show a mixture of early, mid and late pathology.
The chain isn¹t always a straight line. They might have been ill for so long
that they¹ve been up and down the chain many times picking up, shedding,
suppressing, resolving etc, many aspects of the diseased state. And what
sometimes happens here is an apparent gap ­ parts of the rx picture seem to
be missing. I made a reference to Aurum ­ well known for its disappointment
from failure made even worse because they have been doggedly determined in
their striving for success ­ but this determination can be missing (lost?)
and all you see is the hopelessness, melancholy, grief, depression, self
condemnation. Aurum is solvent and even careful case taking will not
discover the lost or dissolved determination.

This is what I was referring to ­ it all depends at what point the
individual joins the disease paradigm.

Having said that I do see remedies as shapes and lines and chains etc
because it helps me utilise the point I have made above.

Joy

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on 31/1/05 10:08 pm, dusty1197 at dusty1197@yahoo.com wrote:
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[dusty1197]

Thank you, Joy, for a wonderful explanation. Your following comment
is, I believe, a faltering point in many a homeopath's thought
processes:

seem to
disappointment
determined in
(lost?)
depression, self

*** By faltering point, I mean that often too much emphasis is
placed on what's missing from a case than what's present. If a well-
known remedy quality is absent from a case, the remedy is often
discarded as the case is no longer considered similar to
the "essence" of the remedy. Aurum is a perfect example, where the
absence of the well-known Aurum determination might lead the
prescriber astray because the Aurum essence involves disappointment
or fear of failure *but* with a dogged determination. If part of
the essence is missing, the entire remedy falls out of favor for the
case. I've often heard homeopaths disregard Aurum because a pt,
while despondent, is *not* in a suicidal state. So more, or at
least equal, emphasis is given to what's expected but missing as to
what's present. I'd enjoy hearing how you, and others, overcome
this misguided focus and what I suppose could be described as a
misinterpretation of the syndrome, and ultimately a remedy, as it
presents itself.

Thanks again, Joy, for such an informative reply.

Toni

[J Lucas]

I know I keep saying this but if we rank the sx of a case and build a
hierarchy, a priority of what needs to be cured then this faltering needn¹t
happen so much.

The other problem comes partly from how we try to remember remedies ­ we
feel the need to minimise the remedy picture often along the lines of its
essence and essence prescribing just compounds this and we get a fixed idea
of that remedy but it is only part of the rx.

Keynotes are better, or red line sx, or whatever one wants to call them.
This dispenses with essence and takes you right back to the real pathology
that is represented by each remedy. But much of the time we don¹t need to
remember it all because it is all laid out for us in the reps and MM¹s.

If a prominent part of a remedy picture is missing in a case but there are
so many other sx present that pertain to that remedy then that remedy has
to be in the running to consider. I don¹t think there is anything magical or
mysterious about this ­ you can have a Pulsatilla without amenorrhea or
weepiness; an Aurum without suicide; an Arsenicum without diarrhoea etc etc.

Maybe the faltering comes from the dichotomy of whether to fit the rx to the
person or the person to the remedy.

Interpretation shouldn¹t really come into it ­ stick to the facts of the
case. Keep it simple, keep an open mind, consult as many MM¹s as possible
and always read the small print.

Joy

http://www.homeopathicmateriamedica.com
on 1/2/05 8:00 pm, dusty1197 at dusty1197@yahoo.com wrote:
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[Dale Moss]

You have my vote, Joy. The first rule should be to figure out what needs to
be fixed, and work from that. Otherwise, it's too hard to see the forest
for the trees.

Peace,
Cinnabar